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(No Model.)

M. MURINGER.

GAME APPARATUS.

Patented May 10, 1887. flyi WIT/958858 ATTORNEYS rare STATES MORANDMURINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAM E APPARATUS.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,898, dated May 10,1887. Application filed March 3, 1887. Serial No. 259,588. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Monano MURINGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in game apparatus, as set forthin the following specification and claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a gameapparatus. Fi 2 is a section in the plane 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aperspective view. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation of astandard orupright in the plane 3 3 Fig. 2.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

I11 the drawings theletter A designates a surface or support. 0 is amovable body or object-such, for example, as a top. A suitable motivepower-such as a string, [can impart motion to the top. By having a guardor eleva tion, B, themovable body C will be prevented from passing offthe surface or support A.

One or more standards, D, rise above the surface A. The standards oruprights D may be fixed in position, or said standards may be looselyplacedon the surface A. I prefer to have the standards D fixed inposition. The standards Dare each provided with a movable portion, E.

As seen in Fig. 4, a motor--such asaspring, L-tends to move or actuatethe movable portion E. The spring L is suitably applied-as, for example,between the surface A and a lug or projection, K, on the stem or supportJ of the movable portion I A detent, M, holds the movable portionagainst the action of the spring or motorL. A spring, N, tends to bringthe detent M into engagement with the stem J or its lug K.

By actuating a lug or projection, F, the detent M can be moved so as torelease the movable portion E. The movable portion E will then be movedby the motor L. The movable body O,in moving about on the surface A,willat times actuate a lug or projection, F, and release a movable body, E.

A bell or object, G, can be supported on a support, II, in such positionthat the object G- will at times be moved by the movable bodyC.

The standard D may be provided with a stop, 0, Fig. 4, to limit themotion of the movable body E.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A game board or support, A, provided with a movable body, 0, and witha standard, D, said standard being provided with a movable portion, E,and with a detent, M, adapted to engage said movable portion, saiddetent being adapted to be operated by the movable body 0, substantiallyas set forth.

2. A game board or support, A, provided with a movable body, 0, and witha fixed standard, D, said standard being provided with a movableportion, E, and with a detent, M, adapted to engage said movableportion, said detcnt being adapted to be operated by the movable bodyO,substantially as set forth.

3. A standard, D, provided with a movable portion, E, and with a detent,M, for engag ing said movable portion, said detent being adapted tooperate in connection with a top or movable body, 0, substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MOR AND M URING ER.

\Vitnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. 1ASTENIIUBElL

